Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies

This Cookie Policy explains how Mindful Ink uses cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit our site. They help us remember your preferences, track your activity, and improve your browsing experience. We use cookies to support the functionality of our platform and to understand how you interact with our mindful journaling and reflective writing course content. These files are essential for delivering personalised experiences tailored to your journey of daily self-awareness through writing practice in Waterford.

Types of Cookies We Use

We use several categories of cookies to enhance your experience:

• Essential Cookies: These are necessary for the basic functioning of our website and course platform. They enable you to navigate and use core features, such as accessing your journaling materials and progress tracking.
• Performance Cookies: We use these to understand how you interact with our content. They collect information about pages visited, time spent, and features used, helping us optimise the platform for better performance.
• Functional Cookies: These remember your preferences and choices, such as your language settings and customised journal layouts, so you don’t need to set them each time you visit.
• Analytics Cookies: We use these to gather data about user behaviour and engagement with our reflective writing course, allowing us to continuously improve our offerings.

Why We Use Cookies

Cookies serve important purposes in supporting your experience with our mindful journaling platform. We use them to maintain your session, remember your login information, and ensure the security of your personal journal entries. They help us understand which sections of our course resonate most with you, enabling us to tailor content recommendations for your self-awareness journey.

Additionally, we use cookies to measure the effectiveness of our teaching methods and identify areas where we can provide better support. By analysing aggregate data, we can enhance the quality of our daily writing practice exercises and reflective prompts. Some cookies also enable social sharing features, allowing you to easily share your insights and progress with your writing community if you choose to do so.

Managing Cookies

You have full control over cookie settings through your web browser. Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies or alert you when cookies are being sent. Here’s how to manage cookies in popular browsers:

• Google Chrome: Click the menu icon (three vertical dots) in the top right, select Settings, navigate to Privacy and Security, then Cookies and other site data. You can block all cookies or allow them on specific sites.
• Mozilla Firefox: Click the menu button (three horizontal lines) in the top right, select Settings, go to Privacy & Security, and under Cookies and Site Data, choose your preferred settings.
• Apple Safari: Click Safari in the menu bar, select Preferences, go to the Privacy tab, and adjust your cookie preferences under Cookies and website data.
• Microsoft Edge: Click the menu button (three horizontal dots) in the top right, select Settings, navigate to Privacy, search, and services, then manage your cookie preferences.

Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our course platform. Essential cookies cannot be disabled without impacting your ability to access your journal entries and course materials. We recommend keeping at least essential cookies enabled to ensure the best experience with our reflective writing practice.